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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
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Gold Hands Happiness Live Love Silver
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.
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Affect Angel Flame Voice
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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God Justice Pieces Sick Translation War
Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.
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Man Responsibility Work
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
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Afraid Animal Fear Man
Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
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Love Ourselves Run True
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
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Heaven Joy Place Safety True World

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